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VVSG Migration and Previously Certified Voting Systems
What the EAC's VVSG Migration page says about certification, acquisition, use, and new testing applications.
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What matters now
- No voting system is decertified by the EAC as part of a VVSG version migration.
- VVSG migration does not affect the status of any previously EAC-certified system.
- Systems certified under a previous standard remain certified and may still be acquired and used.
- The EAC stopped taking new VVSG 1.0/1.1 test applications on November 15, 2023 — a cutoff on new applications only.
- State election statutes may set separate rules on top of federal certification status.
The EAC’s VVSG Migration page states: “No voting system will be decertified by the EAC as part of VVSG migration.” The page also addresses the status, acquisition, and use of previously certified systems and the intake of certain new test applications.
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Key points
- The EAC states no system will be decertified as part of a VVSG version migration (EAC, VVSG Migration).
- Migration to a new standard “does not affect the status of any previously EAC-certified system” (EAC, VVSG Migration).
- Systems certified under an older VVSG version “are still certified and may still be acquired and used” (EAC, VVSG Migration).
- Separately, the EAC stopped taking new test applications against VVSG 1.0/1.1 as of November 15, 2023 — a cutoff on new applications, not a change to existing certifications (EAC, VVSG Migration).
Status of already-certified systems
The page states:
“VVSG migration does not affect the status of any previously EAC-certified system” — EAC VVSG Migration
Use and acquisition of older-certified systems
The page states:
“Systems certified under a previous standard are still certified and may still be acquired and used” — EAC VVSG Migration
What changed in November 2023
The page also states:
“The EAC ceased accepting applications for voting systems to be tested against VVSG 1.0 and 1.1 on November 15, 2023” — EAC VVSG Migration
What this article does not answer
This article reports the EAC migration page only. It does not determine a particular state’s requirements or a particular system’s status.